The entire production is top-notch in its recreation of a 19th century early photographic studio, including historically accurate period-piece costumes and eerie mood-setting light and sound.<\/p>\n
Summerland tells the haunting story of William H. Mumler, a 19th-century spirit photographer whose images claimed to reveal the faces of the dead.<\/p>\n
Step into William H. Mumler\u2019s mysterious New York photography studio, circa 1869\u2014a place where the living and the dead share the same frame. Watch, spellbound as the play unfolds during a time when belief in contact with the dead swept through parlors and s\u00e9ances across the nation.<\/p>\n
The play title refers to a tenet of the mid-19th century Spiritualist movement. It held that there were multiple levels of the afterlife. For the pure of heart, the first stop after death would be a paradise-like realm called Summerland.<\/p>\n
Mumler claims to capture what others only dream of seeing: the ghostly return of departed loved ones, shimmering through the photographic glass. His \u201cspirit portraits\u201d electrify believers and anger skeptics, until one powerful man\u2014the steely Chief Marshal Joseph Tooker\u2014sets out to expose him as a charlatan.<\/p>\n
Joseph Tooker investigates Mumler\u2019s shady past and his process, for suspected fraud, uncovering much more than he bargained for in his search for truth. When the inspector\u2019s own photographic sitting takes an unexpected turn, truth and illusion come into question and the line between skepticism and belief blurs \u2014 challenging both men\u2019s convictions about what lies beyond the veil.<\/p>\n
Summerland is about the collision between the two men’s opposing beliefs about the afterlife. Is it a hoax, or is it real? Finding the answer to either question threatens to destroy them both. Which one prevails?<\/p>\n
At the heart of the story, does Summerland really exist?<\/strong><\/p>\n See the show and decide for yourself<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00ab\u00a0Actors Jesse Rob, Dom MacKinnon and Lise Renault brilliantly directed by Bill VanGorder bring to the stage an unsettling blend of historical hair-raising mystery and imagination. The Theatre Arts Guild does a fine job of capturing the lights of doubt and the otherworldly in this riveting production of Arlitia Jones\u2019 Summerland. Not to be missed!\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n \u201cSummerland\u201d runs from Thursday March 26 through Saturday April 11,<\/strong> Recommended for ages 14+ The entire production is top-notch in its recreation of a 19th century early photographic studio, including historically accurate period-piece costumes and eerie mood-setting light and sound. Summerland tells the haunting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":111398,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"campaign-category":[],"tribe_events_cat":[139],"class_list":["post-111397","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-arts-culture","cat_arts-culture"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\nThursday’s, Friday’s and Saturday\u2019s at 8pm<\/strong>
\nwith one additional 2pm matinee on Saturday April 11<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nAll performances are at The Pond Playhouse<\/strong>
\n6 Parkhill Rd., Halifax (Jollimore)
\nFree parking too (even better value)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"